Question

Fourteen percent of the town's population are above the age of 65. if there are 320 residents over the age of 65,approximately what is the town's population?

Answer 1

14% of the towns population is 320. Let P denote the towns population.
14/100 * P =320
14P/100 = 320
14P = 32000
divide both sides by 14
P = 2285.71
the towns population is 2286

Answer 2

So if 14% are over 65, and 320 residents are over 65, then we can say that 14% of the town is 320. Then, we can divide by 14 to find 1%, which is 22.857142857 Now we can multiply this by 100 to get 2285.7142857, which is the answer. To double check, you'd just find 14% of 2285.7142857 (multiply by 0.14) which is equal to 320. Because you can't have fractions of people, however, you'd have to round the answer up to 2286 people. Hope this helps!